Attorney General Calls Corey Haim ‘Poster Child for Drug Addiction’

California Attorney General Gerry Brown made the remarks at a press conference where he talked about doctor shopping and about how, in the months leading up to his death, Haim used multiple doctors to procure 550 prescription pills.

Between Feb 2 and March 5th, Corey Haim traveled
to 7 different doctors to procure prescriptions to narcotic and sedative drugs.
His efforts yielded him 550 pills in total, including 195 Valium pills, 194
Soma pills, 148 Vicodin pills and 15 Xanax. According to the LA County Coroner,
Haim travelled to 20 doctors over the last year to get prescription
medications.

The coroner has not yet released a cause of death for the
38 year Haim, who was suffering from a flu like illness at the time of his
death, and who has battled drug addiction for decades.

California Attorney General, Gerry Brown talked to reporters
about the situation, and called Haim a ‘poster child’ for prescription drug
addiction and doctor shopping behaviors. He says that Haim would visit clinics and
emergency rooms complaining of specific symptoms, such as shoulder pain, to get
fast prescriptions to the drugs he wanted.

Brown reported that the doctors who prescribed Haim the medications
said they felt ‘duped’ by the actor’s lies and said that they didn’t know that
multiple doctors were involved in his care and prescribing.

Haim used an alias to get medications at least once in the
last couple of months, and had used a stolen prescription pad to fill a scrip
for OxyContin at least once.

Brown urged doctors to make use of California’s prescription drug monitoring
database. This database can provide doctors with a patient’s medication
history, which can show doctor shopping behaviors. Doctors can choose to use this
system at their discretion.

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